More than 300 surviving members of the Wareng/Nyakinyua dance troupe in Uasin Gishu County are calling on President Uhuru Kenyatta to help them get title deeds for their prime 80 acres piece of land estimated to be valued at Ksh800 million.
The land is located on the outskirts of Eldoret town.
The surviving dance troupe members say the multi-million shillings property which was given to them over 50 years ago by the late Mzee Jomo Kenyatta has been grabbed by influential personalities due to a lack of the crucial documents.
Led by Pauline Mwangi, 70, the members asked the Head of State to help them get the title deeds before he exits office.
“We are appealing to President Uhuru Kenyatta to issue us with title deeds before he leaves office after the upcoming general election so that our children can have a secure future long after we are gone,” said Mwangi, now a widow.
The 70-year-old surviving member of the Wareng/Nyakinyua dance troupe says that they have been unable to access their property which they only have a mother title deed, after some people, key among them influential personalities, claimed to own a vast part of it.
The new owners, she claims, took advantage of the 2007/2008 post-election violence to grab their property after they escaped to save their lives during the political skirmishes following the outcome of disputed Presidential election results.
Speaking to the press at Timboroa trading centre, along the busy Eldoret-Nakuru highway where they leave as squatters, they said they cannot bury their kin because of the land ownership feud.
Another member, Peter Mathu said that the majority of them had died even before benefiting from the share of the prime land that was given to them by the founding President.
“Our prayer to President Kenyatta is to help expedite the issuance of the title deed to the surviving members of Wareng/Nyakinyua from Uasin Gishu County before his term of office ends,” pleaded Mathu, 76.
